Oliver from Brazil

ORoedel · October 30, 2011, 05:51:21 PM

correctly i´m german, but living since 2002 in Brazil. Worked as a beekeeping prof. at agriculture school. My bees were african, but this year i killed them all and i´m switching to pure italian bees (NAVEIRO, from Argentina).
I´m near São Paulo in an agriculture area, but also with a lot of natural forrests and eucaliptos, too.

asprince · October 30, 2011, 07:52:14 PM

Welcome, I would love to hear of your experience with African bees and why you killed them rather than just re-queening.

Again, welcome,

Steve

JP · October 30, 2011, 08:20:48 PM

Welcome to Beemaster! Would love to hear some stories and see pictures.

...JP

AllenF · October 30, 2011, 09:03:52 PM

Welcome to the forum and tell us more about your bees please.

specialkayme · November 26, 2011, 01:40:35 PM

Welcome to the site!

ORoedel · January 02, 2012, 01:49:39 PM

Quote from: asprince on October 30, 2011, 07:52:14 PM
Welcome, I would love to hear of your experience with African bees and why you killed them rather than just re-queening.

Again, welcome,

Steve

Sorry for responding just now, was a little bit occupied :-)
I killed the bees cause in my region the african bee density is to high for requeening. Made a lot of experience, but it is nearly impossible to requeen if there are african hives near the requeening hive.
I killed every day 3 to 7 african princess with their little invading sworms. It is like a horror film, you open a hive and the african bee attacks.
So i decided to kill all my african bees and to buy packet bees (italian). But even this will be difficult, cause from other beekeepers i know it needs 3 years to "clean" your region. With a lot of italian drones the african bees will be change a little bit, and at the end die suffering from hunger, or leave the area.
But it is like war!

Here we have a little forum of beekeepers with european bees. It´s a small group cause officialy it is impossible what we are doing :-) The government tells to public the african bee is the best, produce more honey and never get sick or varroa =:-) Totally crazy, but everybody accept this lie, not everbody, there is a little group of beekeepers who defends this lies ;-)

Thanks and will read/write us!

Kathyp · January 02, 2012, 03:30:47 PM

check out the beemaster facebook site also. i have at least one friend from Brazil from facebook!

welcome to the site.

Larry Bees · January 02, 2012, 07:08:12 PM

Welcome to the site! Larry

ORoedel · January 03, 2012, 07:09:25 AM

Will Kathy! Thanks Larry!